Sohmer Shakespeare for the wiser sort

Solving Shakespeare's riddles in The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1-2 Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, and Cymbeline
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3512-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Steve Sohmer’s book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare’s riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sohmer, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. ‘… to please the wiser sort.’: Shakespeare’s other (smarter) audience
2. ‘Doubt thou the starres are fire ….’: the new philosophy in Hamlet
3. ‘The time is out of joint’: Queen Elizabeth’s calendar muddle
4. Shakespeare’s time-riddles in Romeo and Juliet solved
5. ‘Two and fortie houres’: did Shakespeare know Bandello?
6. Disrobing images: Shakespeare rewrites the Holy Ghost
7. The ‘double time’ crux in Othello solved
8. ‘Who’s there?’: the men behind the masks of Falstaff, Faulconbridge, Lamord, and Hamlet

Über Autor(innen)

Sohmer Steve:
Steve Sohmer is Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)Steve Sohmer is Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)